ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2023
Measuring body temperature in birds - the effects of sensor type and placement on estimated temperature and metabolic rate.
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- Evidence of Small Changes in Daytime Body Temperature in Active Black-Capped Chickadees in Response to Supplemental Food Availability.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Invasive songbirds show greater heat, but not cold, tolerance than Mediterranean native counterparts.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Effects of Partner Workload and Increasing Environmental Temperature on Nestling Provisioning and Body Temperature in a Declining Aerial Insectivore.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026Article
- Nutritional and managerial interventions on growth performance, nutrient transport-related genes and behavioral responses in heats stressed broiler chickens.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Current reproductive effort shapes the response to infection in a passerine bird.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Several methods are routinely used to measure avian body temperature, but different methods vary in invasiveness. This may cause stress-induced increases in temperature and/or metabolic rate and, hence, overestimation of both parameters. Choosing an adequate temperature measurement method is therefore key to accurately characterizing an animal's thermal and metabolic phenotype. Using great tits (Parus major) and four common methods with different levels of invasiveness (intraperitoneal, cloacal, subcutaneous, cutaneous), we evaluated the preciseness of body temperature measurements and effects on resting metabolic rate (RMR) over a 40°C range of ambient temperatures. None of the methods caused overestimation or underestimation of RMR compared with un-instrumented birds, and body or skin temperature estimates did not differ between methods in thermoneutrality. However, skin temperature was lower compared with all other methods below thermoneutrality. These results provide empirical guidance for future research that aims to measure body temperature and metabolic rate in small bird models.
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